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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 50
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-36
JAMES K. POLK PRESIDENTIAL HOME STUDY ACT
MAY 3, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 99]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 99) to require the Secretary of the Interior to
study the suitability and feasibility of designating the James K.
Polk Home in Columbia, Tennessee, as a unit of the National Park
System, and for other purposes, having considered the same, re-
ports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that
the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 99 is to require the Secretary of the Interior
to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the James K.
Polk Home in Columbia, Tennessee, as a unit of the National Park
System.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, lived in
Columbia, Tennessee, from 1819 until 1824. Nominated as the first
dark-horse presidential candidate, his program of westward ex-
pansion helped him win the election. True to his campaign pledge
to serve a single term in office, he returned to Tennessee in 1849.
President Polk died three months later. During his term of office,
he led the nation through the Mexican War, completing the push
to the Pacific Ocean.
In 1961, the James K. Polk Home in Columbia, Tennessee, was
designated as a National Historic Landmark. In April 2015, the
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